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March 2025

Durham, NC 3/31/25

Kwanzan Cherry Eastern Redbud Eastern Redbud Smooth Blackhaw Smooth Blackhaw

   
Ilex flowers Two-flower Melic Grass Green and Gold    

Buccaneer State Park, Waveland, MS 3/26/25

Yaupon Holly Sneezeweed (Helenium amarum) Great Egret Same Great Egret Same Great Egret

Same Great Egret Fleabane False Garlic False Garlic False Garlic

       
Buttercup        

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 3/26/25

 
Violet Wood-sorrel Firewheel Field Marigold Ticksweed, with fly Grass and another plant  

Mississippi Aquarium, Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 3/25/25

Yellow-banded Poison Dart Frog Wild Discus Shrimp Shark Phantasmal Poison Dart Frog

 
Mystery fish, maybe a shark Same fish Porkfish (lower righthand corner) Forcipiger wanai  

 
Guitarfish Mystery fish Mystery fish Mystery fish  

 
Epaulette Shark Eel Clownfish Blue Tang  

     
Blue Spotted Ribbontail Ray Blue Poison Dart Frog      

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 3/25/25

Northern Mockingbird Violet Wood-sorrel Common Starling Broad-headed Sharpshooter Cat

   
Not dandelions Live Oak catkins Crane's-bill Geraniums    

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 3/24/25

Willet Terns Snowy Egret Snowy Egret Snowy Egret

   
Snowy Egret Sanderlings and a couple of Dunlins Sanderlings    

 
Sanderlings and Dunlins Preening Sanderling Sanderling Same Sanderling  

 
Ruddy Turnstone Royal Terns Royal Terns and a Laughing Gull Royal Terns and Laughing Gulls

 

Royal Terns and Laughing Gull Royal Terns and Laughing Gulls Royal Tern landing Royal Tern about to dive Another Royal Tern about to dive

Marbled Godwit Same Marbled Godwit Laughing Gulls' chorus, with two bystanders Laughing Gulls' chorus, with just one bystander Forster's Tern, about to dive

 
Forster's Tern Forster's Tern Large dead fish Dunlins and a few Sanderlings  

 
Cranes at the port Black Skimmers Black Skimmers Black Skimmer, with beak open  

 
Black-bellied Plover Black-bellied Plover Black-bellied Plover Black-bellied Plover  

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 3/23/25

 
Common Vetch Evening Primrose Virginia Spiderwort Seen from the plane  

Penny's Bend Nature Preserve, Durham, NC 3/20/25

Yellow Fumewort (Corydalis flavula), with a tiny midge Yellow Fumewort (Corydalis flavula) Virginia Spring Beauty Virginia Spring Beauties Twig from mystery tree

Rue Anemone Painted Buckeye Little Periwinkle Ivyleaf Speedwell, with a tiny midge Hophornbeam catkins

Green and Gold Another Green and Gold Male Eastern Towhee Dimpled Trout Lily Crayfish hole?

 

       
Chipping Sparrow        

Durham, NC 3/18/25

Winged Elm samaras Virginia Spring Beauty Red Maple samaras Eastern Phoebe Mock Strawberry flower

Jumping spider (Platycryptus undulatus) Jumping spider (Platycryptus undulatus) Jumping spider (Platycryptus undulatus) Jumping spider (female Hentzia palmarum) Jumping spider (female Hentzia palmarum)

Daffodil, growing wild Common Blue Violet Common Blue Violet Boxelder Maple flowers and leaves Boxelder Maple flowers and leaves

   
Sawfly (Hoplocampa genus) Asian Multi-colored Lady Beetle White-throated Sparrow    

Durham, NC 3/16/25

Winged Elm samaras Winged Elm samaras Winged Elm samara Sugar maple flowers Sugar maple flowers

 
Mystery plant, very small Pennsylvania Bittercress Littleleaf Buttercup Common Chickweed  

   
Cherry tree Cherry tree flowers Cherry tree flowers    

Durham, NC 3/14/25

Winged Elm samaras Mystery substance, which looked like white sand at a distance Virginia Spring Beauty Probably a Common Blue Violet Springtail

 
Seed shrimps and mystery objects Seed Shrimp Seed shrimp, with both antennae showing Henbits  

 
Crab spider (Synema parvula) Common Yellow Wood-sorrel or Creeping Wood-sorrel Common Blue Violet Another Common Blue Violet  

       
Asian Multi-colored Lady Beetle        

Sandy Creek Park, Durham, NC 3/12/25

   
Yellowbelly Sliders Winter Honeysuckle White-throated Sparrow    

White-throated Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Song Sparrow Red-bellied Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker Question Mark Purple Dead-nettle Painted Turtle Ground Ivy

Fungus Male Eastern Bluebird Male Eastern Bluebird Male Eastern Bluebird Carolina Chickadee

 
Carolina Chickadee Carolina Chickadee Carolina Chickadee Carolina Chickadee  

Catkins Catkin Female Northern Cardinal Male Northern Cardinal American Elm samaras American Elm samaras

Durham, NC 3/11/25

Jumping spider (Hentzia genus) Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) with prey Male midge Same male midge Running crab spider

       
Flea beetle, Altica genus        

Durham, NC 3/8/25

White-throated Sparrow Red-shouldered Hawk Carolina Chickadee    

   
Tufted Titmouse Tiny Bluets Same Carolina Chickadee    

Durham, NC 3/7/25

Dimpled Trout Lilies Tan-striped White-throated Sparrow Common Chickweed Henbit Female Eastern Bluebird

     
Dimpled Trout Lily Dimpled Trout Lily      

Nature Trail, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC 3/5/25

White-throated Sparrow Same White-throated Sparrow (actually seen inside the Garden) Water patterns (actually seen inside the Garden) Tufted Titmouse Another Tufted Titmouse, at nest

Tufted Titmouse Trillium, probably a Little Sweet Betsy Same Trillium, probably a Little Sweet Betsy Unusual trillium Another unusual trillium

Virginia Spring Beauty Northern Spicebush flower Northern Spicebush flower Northern Spicebush flower Northern Spicebush buds Carolina Chickadee

 
Hepatica Tiny fish (at the Garden) Dimpled Trout Lily Another Dimpled Trout Lily  

 

     
Tufted Titmouse Round-lobed Hepatica      

Durham, NC 3/3/25

Tufted Titmouse Red Maple male flowers (actually March 1) Persian Speedwells Male House Finch Same male House Finch

   
Henbit, Persian Speedwells, and Wild Onions Female Eastern Bluebird Dimpled Trout Lily    

 

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